David Larrabee, CFA, rounds up his favorite articles on equity investments from 2012. Read more
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Human bias, complexity, and uncertainty are amongst the biggest obstacles investors face when it comes to investment valuation, and Aswath Damodaran recently offered some practical guidance on responding to the uncertainties commonly faced when deriving the intrinsic value of a stock. Read more
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Noted behavioralist and value investor James Montier addressed the prospect of investing in European stocks through the framework of his Seven Immutable Laws of Investing — a set of common sense, value-based principles that are too often violated by the typical investor. Read more
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Topping the list of the most popular articles from the past month is another entry in our series on lie detection for investment professionals. Other top performers include articles on counterfactual thinking and the Manchester United IPO. Read more
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Today’s historically low interest rates and investors’ flight to safety have combined to raise interest in dividend-paying stocks. And while studies of the efficacy of dividend-investing strategies have been mixed, dividend investing remains a popular strategy. As such, it only seems appropriate to revisit an investing classic that first provided investors with a theoretical framework for determining the intrinsic value of stocks based on their dividends: John Burr Williams’s The Theory of Investment Value. Read more
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Investors who bought shares in the recent public offering should have first consulted the authors of Security Analysis, who wrote that the intrinsic value of a security is “that value which is justified by the facts . . . as distinct, let us say, from market quotations established by artificial manipulation or distorted by psychological excesses.” Read more
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